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in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slow down the americans with respect to the foreign policy there are a few hopeful signs of the nomination haykel by but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be whether to have a program of using drones the power has the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the fears americans are not sick or sanguine about the prospects or seeing us move forward toward the united states being a country which basically respects international and also desires we respect the liberties of our own people. israel will act a new apartment on tuesday with prime minister benjamin netanyahu predicted to come out on top but many israelis don't think his policies are radical enough the one time netanyahu supporter reaping the rewards. reports now on why the israeli leader even has to fight against his former allies. he's the surprise success story of israel's election campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for
in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slow down the americans with respect to the foreign policy there are a few hopeful signs of the nomination haykel by but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be whether to have a program of using drones the power has the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the fears americans are not sick or sanguine about the prospects or...
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administration it was getting more and more ideological i think the war in the via was ideal what you call it didn't bring any fruit to assume that this needs obviously there is even there is going to be probably one more hostile to their resume in egypt so there's going to be more that i wanted to colleagues and you know you. disagree completely i think russia is a huge threat to the united states not to the united states or the united states citizens security wise secure now it's you curiosus no threat to the united states it's a threat to the uni polar vision of the western uni polar vision of the world it's a threat to us in germany it's a threat to the us being able to exert political military economic influence in different areas of the world that's the threat that russia presents to the united states and russia is in that case the biggest threat to the united states in the world china has the capability but not the political will it's part of their nature as an elite they're all engineers within a pullet bureau they don't they don't they don't have that aggressive combative att
administration it was getting more and more ideological i think the war in the via was ideal what you call it didn't bring any fruit to assume that this needs obviously there is even there is going to be probably one more hostile to their resume in egypt so there's going to be more that i wanted to colleagues and you know you. disagree completely i think russia is a huge threat to the united states not to the united states or the united states citizens security wise secure now it's you curiosus...
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but the and it's backed by by washington by the obama administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ram through a constitution that in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing an islamic dictatorship i think they're so preoccupied with this sure real agenda this islamization of creating this this state which de facto is emerging to be an islamic fascist regime a totalitarian regime that will regulate every corner of life and they're less concerned evidently with the real functioning know what comedy so that. you probably need to right now a terror attack alarm in libya's second largest city three european governments call for the immediate situation of their citizens and then fears the city could soon be ripped apart by attacks more on that for you in just a few minutes. also ahead the dismal figures which expose britain's fragile finances there is a country may slip into another recession and lose its top notch credit rating up to g.d.p. shrinks again. as stories told to come but first an ex cia veteran who oversaw the capture of hi
but the and it's backed by by washington by the obama administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ram through a constitution that in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing an islamic dictatorship i think they're so preoccupied with this sure real agenda this islamization of creating this this state which de facto is emerging to be an islamic fascist regime a totalitarian regime that will regulate every corner of life and they're less...
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the and it's backed by by washington by the obama administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ram through a constitution that in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing islamic dictatorship i think they're so preoccupied with this sure real agenda this is a llama sation look reading this just heard a state which the fact all those years are merging to be in islam it sasha but i would carry a regime that will regulate every corner of life and they're less concerned evidently with the real function of the common be so that. you probably need to right now. a terror attack alarm in libya's second largest city three european governments call for the immediate evacuation of their citizens amid fears the city could be ripped apart by terror attacks soon more on that in a few minutes. career is warning of war saying it will attack south korea if its neighbor takes part in fresh u.n. sanctions eltham eighteen months a third day of fairy rhetoric with pyongyang previously involving more nuclear and ballistic tests james corbet editor of a j
the and it's backed by by washington by the obama administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ram through a constitution that in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing islamic dictatorship i think they're so preoccupied with this sure real agenda this is a llama sation look reading this just heard a state which the fact all those years are merging to be in islam it sasha but i would carry a regime that will regulate every corner of life...
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so you blamed president obama and the obama administration for colluding with movie companies in order to orchestrate this giant arrest here in new zealand is this kind of give and take relationship between washington and hollywood although you say it is or are you just the exception does this really exist well i mean you have to look at the players behind this case ok the driving force of course is chris dodd the chairman of the m.p.a. and he was a senator for a long time and he is according to joe biden joe biden's best friend and the state attorney that is in charge of this case has been joe biden's personal counsel while he was a senator in mcbride and also worked as an anti-piracy you know manager for the b.s.a. business office or c. asian which is basically like the m.p.a. but for software companies so and also the timing is very interesting you know. the election time. the fundraisers in hollywood set for february march april and you know they had to be some kind of plan b. turnitin for sopa and you know hollywood is a very important contributor to bombers campaign not just with
so you blamed president obama and the obama administration for colluding with movie companies in order to orchestrate this giant arrest here in new zealand is this kind of give and take relationship between washington and hollywood although you say it is or are you just the exception does this really exist well i mean you have to look at the players behind this case ok the driving force of course is chris dodd the chairman of the m.p.a. and he was a senator for a long time and he is according...
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or was it for a political reason that the obama administration had this talking point that al qaeda was being decimated and it was two months before the election and didn't want to ruin that talking point. those in the white house obviously say it was purely for intelligence reasons they were not confident enough in the intelligence at that point to say to a certainty that without question it was a terrorist attack by such and such group, and in addition they did not want to let any of the bad dguy that they were wise to them. >> dana, i was surprised how tough senator mccain and rand paul was. neither one minced any words in going eafr tafter the secretary state. i suspect that's going to be a prelude before she testifies this afternoon. there are republicans on real t questions for her as well. >> there certainly are. in a way i actually am not that surprised. i know you've seen john mccain get even more aggressive with the person on e other side of the deus sitting in the witness chair. ran paul likely has aspirations for higher office but, yes, absolutely. that always tends to be ki
or was it for a political reason that the obama administration had this talking point that al qaeda was being decimated and it was two months before the election and didn't want to ruin that talking point. those in the white house obviously say it was purely for intelligence reasons they were not confident enough in the intelligence at that point to say to a certainty that without question it was a terrorist attack by such and such group, and in addition they did not want to let any of the bad...
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neither the bush administration nor the obama administration has wanted to confront the scale of international terrorism and the scale of the fanaticism which is driving it and you could argue that obama is worse, but the elites in both parties are trying to find some way to get it down to being a manageable problem. it's a big problem. and frankly, nobody in the u.s. is covering the problems in pakistan, which are very real. pakistan is probably building more nuclear weapons right now than any other countries in the world. we talk about an iranian bomb maybe in the the near future. i think there are whoever a hundred pakistani nuclear weapons and it's a very fragile country with very, very deep problems. afghanistan is decaying, it's not getting better. iraq is decaying, the amount of violence in iraq has gone up dramatically and syria is a mess. and bahrain has a serious problem and yemen is a mess. somalia is a mess. you start looking around and begin to realize there's a much more dangerous world out there than president obama's inaugural address or secretary clinton's testimony today woul
neither the bush administration nor the obama administration has wanted to confront the scale of international terrorism and the scale of the fanaticism which is driving it and you could argue that obama is worse, but the elites in both parties are trying to find some way to get it down to being a manageable problem. it's a big problem. and frankly, nobody in the u.s. is covering the problems in pakistan, which are very real. pakistan is probably building more nuclear weapons right now than any...
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. >> ifill: but sparks flew when senate republicans accused the obama administration of deceiving the natioby initially suggesting the benghazi attack was something other than terrorism. senator ron johnson of wisconsin: >> we were misled that there were supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that. and that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact... >> but could-- but, you know... >> ...and the american people could have known that within days, and they didn't know that. >> and-- with all due respect, the fact is we had four dead americans. >> i understand. >> was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some americans? what difference, at this point, does it make? it is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator. now, honestly, i will do my best to answer your questions about this. but the fact is that people were trying in real time to get to the best information. >> ifill: republican john mccain press
. >> ifill: but sparks flew when senate republicans accused the obama administration of deceiving the natioby initially suggesting the benghazi attack was something other than terrorism. senator ron johnson of wisconsin: >> we were misled that there were supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that. and that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact... >> but could-- but, you know... >> ...and the american people could...
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but i don't think she or the obama administration has many notable diplomatic accomplishiments. the syria problem is-- seemed. the middle east situation seems pretty much stalled out. can. >> rose: do you believe benghazi will be a cirrus law on her record? >> i think it is a flaw. but i don't think it will be a lasting flaw. it was a systemic breakdown. there was an independent review that established there was a lot of culpability of a lot of people on the sixth floor of the state department, but she was on the seventh floor, and certainly, her posture has been she accepts responsibility for what happened but not blame, and that's pret much what played out today in two hearings. she was uncharacteristically emotional in describing the death of the four americans. so i don't think it's going to be an impediment to what everybody assumes are her longer term political ambitions to run for the presidency. >> rose: what struck you about the testimony today that was noteworthy? >> well, there was very little that shed new light on the white house role. you know, there was an indepen
but i don't think she or the obama administration has many notable diplomatic accomplishiments. the syria problem is-- seemed. the middle east situation seems pretty much stalled out. can. >> rose: do you believe benghazi will be a cirrus law on her record? >> i think it is a flaw. but i don't think it will be a lasting flaw. it was a systemic breakdown. there was an independent review that established there was a lot of culpability of a lot of people on the sixth floor of the state...
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in terms of his efforts the stimulus indeed i suspect that in some ways the efforts by the obama administration actually slowed down the american that. my guess my guess is that mr obama will continue to pursue his a program of expanding government with its domestic policies certainly we'll see how obamacare actually works minute state governments are now involved in trying to determine whether or not they will set up health care exchanges i suspect will continue to see the obama administration involvement more and more in the offing with respect to foreign policy there are a few hopeful signs of the nomination of a goal as the i think that this has some of us because some her ego was not as much of a supporter of the united states involvement in the middle as other people so i think that there is a possibility that this is far less american involvement in the middle east but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be wedded to a program and drones the hour it has the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the
in terms of his efforts the stimulus indeed i suspect that in some ways the efforts by the obama administration actually slowed down the american that. my guess my guess is that mr obama will continue to pursue his a program of expanding government with its domestic policies certainly we'll see how obamacare actually works minute state governments are now involved in trying to determine whether or not they will set up health care exchanges i suspect will continue to see the obama administration...
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. >> john is the right choice to carry forward the obama administration's foreign policy, and i urge his speedy confirmation. >> and at her side one of her toughest critics on benghazi. today recounting how he and fellow vietnam veteran john kerry worked together to normalize relations with vietnam in the 1990s. >> helping to establish a relationship with vietnam that serves american interests and values rather than one that remained meyered many mutual resentment and bitterness is one of my proudest accomplishments as a senator. i expect it is one of john's as well. witnessing almost daily his exetch lear statesmanship is one of the highest privileges i've had here. >> kerry's first appearance on the senate foreign relations panel as an activist. some things don't change. >> how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in vietnam? >> i'm tired of -- >> when i first came to washington and testified, i was testifying as part of the group of people who came here to have their voices heard, and that is, above all, what this place is about, so i respect, i think, the woman who was voic
. >> john is the right choice to carry forward the obama administration's foreign policy, and i urge his speedy confirmation. >> and at her side one of her toughest critics on benghazi. today recounting how he and fellow vietnam veteran john kerry worked together to normalize relations with vietnam in the 1990s. >> helping to establish a relationship with vietnam that serves american interests and values rather than one that remained meyered many mutual resentment and...
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under the obama administration, the prohibition on being openly gay was lifted. now, with little fanfare, the last restriction -- keeping women on the sidelines will be thrown out thursday. within a year, women who serve in the military -- they make up 14% of the force -- will be eligible to apply for 230,000 new jobs. the reason, the last two u.s. wars. >> there are no frontlines anymore. if you go all the way back to the civil war, you had a front line in the clear back line. you do not now because it is an asymmetric war fight. anybody at any moment to be in danger. >> women have been with combat units. during iraq and afghanistan. >> it was myself and the others and the company. >> 800 u.s. women have been wounded in iraq and afghanistan. more than 130 have died, including jennifer. >> i do not want them to forget her. i think probably everybody feels that way -- every parent feels that way. the sacrifices she made an the other is that still do. >> in many ways what will be announced will not be new to the 200,000 women who serve in the military. many have se
under the obama administration, the prohibition on being openly gay was lifted. now, with little fanfare, the last restriction -- keeping women on the sidelines will be thrown out thursday. within a year, women who serve in the military -- they make up 14% of the force -- will be eligible to apply for 230,000 new jobs. the reason, the last two u.s. wars. >> there are no frontlines anymore. if you go all the way back to the civil war, you had a front line in the clear back line. you do not...
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was in power and now the obama administration has you know uniformly embraced it the obama administration has aggressively refused to allow any checks and balances and has even refused congressional requests to disclose how many americans are have been spied on so things like that i mean they're really troubling and i don't think he's going to get as much pushback from congress says as one might hope in the foreign policy realm obama as unfortunately continued much of his predecessor's excesses and recklessness we will see a continuation of foreign policy of extreme interventionism getting involved in every corner of the planet regardless of the consequences. israel seems to be bringing up a generation of young patriots for money and government awards bonus high school teachers who succeeded in motivating students to do their army service for more on that head to our t. dot com. also on mind europe encased in snow as extremely low temperatures result in transport chaos and flight canceled across the continent. now for a look at more news making headlines around the world to packed commute
was in power and now the obama administration has you know uniformly embraced it the obama administration has aggressively refused to allow any checks and balances and has even refused congressional requests to disclose how many americans are have been spied on so things like that i mean they're really troubling and i don't think he's going to get as much pushback from congress says as one might hope in the foreign policy realm obama as unfortunately continued much of his predecessor's excesses...
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was in power and now the obama administration has you know uniformly embraced it the obama administration has aggressively refused to allow any checks and balances and has even refused congressional requests to disclose how many americans have been spied on so things like that i mean a really troubling and i don't think he's going to get as much pushback from congress as as one might hope in the foreign policy realm obama as unfortunately continued much of his predecessor's excesses and recklessness we will see a continuation of foreign policy of extreme interventionism getting involved in every corner of the planet regardless of the consequences. when i return back to our top story this hour the aftermath of the deadly hostage siege in algeria carried out by islamist terrorists in retaliation for the french campaign in mali live to a former british ambassador to algeria graeme han. from london thank you for being with us with us ambassador several british civilians were among those killed during the gas plant takeover will go in continue do you think to support the french intervention in
was in power and now the obama administration has you know uniformly embraced it the obama administration has aggressively refused to allow any checks and balances and has even refused congressional requests to disclose how many americans have been spied on so things like that i mean a really troubling and i don't think he's going to get as much pushback from congress as as one might hope in the foreign policy realm obama as unfortunately continued much of his predecessor's excesses and...
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saying in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slow down the american way with respect to the foreign policy there are are you hopeful signs over the nomination hey goal by but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be wedded to a program of using drones the hour it has on the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the fears americans are not sick or sanguine about the prospects or or toward the united states being a country which basically respects international we and also desires we respect the liberties of our own people. also we have for you this hour damascus calls on the syrian opposition to lay down arms the country's minister remains preconditions for talks while the opposition coalition seeks more backing to form a transitional government. and the wrong name for your life later on we have a story about half naked man from a train in the middle of a frozen forest and manage to survive that's coming up after the short break. we speak your language. programs
saying in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slow down the american way with respect to the foreign policy there are are you hopeful signs over the nomination hey goal by but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be wedded to a program of using drones the hour it has on the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the fears americans are not sick or sanguine about the...
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when the bush administration was in power and now the obama administration has you know uniformly embraced it the obama administration has aggressively refused to allow any checks and balances and has even refused congressional requests to disclose how many americans are for been spied on so things like that i mean a really troubling and i don't think he's going to get as much pushback from congress as as one might hope in the foreign policy realm obama has unfortunately continued much of his predecessor's excesses and recklessness we will see a continuation of foreign policy of extreme interventionism getting involved in every corner of the planet. regardless of the consequences. now so we have for this hour alarms bells ringing for germany's chancellor merkel the party suffer as another regional voting downs gets stronger she'll win a third term in office. and running for your own life and later on we have the story of a half naked man who fell from a train in the middle of a frozen forest and managed to survive that's coming after a short break to stay with us. do we speak your language
when the bush administration was in power and now the obama administration has you know uniformly embraced it the obama administration has aggressively refused to allow any checks and balances and has even refused congressional requests to disclose how many americans are for been spied on so things like that i mean a really troubling and i don't think he's going to get as much pushback from congress as as one might hope in the foreign policy realm obama has unfortunately continued much of his...
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this of ministration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined and while protecting those who have committed which are who have ordered torture behind this wall of classification contrary to popular belief president obama didn't stop the united states and portraying he just stopped it from torturing on his watch through an executive order which means that the us could be only another executive order away from some other president or vice president deciding to torture again the thirty month sentence is being talked about as part of john kiriakou plea deal but the judge could still refuse to settle for that meaning he could potentially face full great to jail time and as for the accusations former cia officer ray mcgovern believes them to be political. he's being punished out of range hypocrisy. look at the chronology here in two thousand and seven john kiriakou came out very loudly against torture as being not worthy of the united states and not efficient not a way to get information what happened well the instructions were to get people to confess co
this of ministration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined and while protecting those who have committed which are who have ordered torture behind this wall of classification contrary to popular belief president obama didn't stop the united states and portraying he just stopped it from torturing on his watch through an executive order which means that the us could be only another executive order away from some other president or vice president deciding to...
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are you willing to say we will put boots on the ground, something the obama administration does not want to do and the american people do not want to do right now? >> you have to ask. there are a whole series of options here that we can put into play. and it has to be a coordinated effort. this isn't just about mali. the french have very capable special forces. they are going to put hurt on these folks. there are things we can do for them short of boots on the ground. i would encourage the president to continue to do that. if you -- this is going to get worse. you cannot allow this to become a national security issue for the united states. i argue it has crossed that threshold. this area now attracting jihadists and they are really good at this stuff including hostage taking because they have been doing it for decades and have been the largest funder to al qaeda. this is a problem we have to deal with. we all ought to sit down and try to come to a consensus short of boots on the ground what options we have available and how we implement them to hasten french victory and to continue to pu
are you willing to say we will put boots on the ground, something the obama administration does not want to do and the american people do not want to do right now? >> you have to ask. there are a whole series of options here that we can put into play. and it has to be a coordinated effort. this isn't just about mali. the french have very capable special forces. they are going to put hurt on these folks. there are things we can do for them short of boots on the ground. i would encourage...
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she also responded to criticism that the obama administration misled the public about who carried out the attack. >> the fact is, we had four dead americans! >> i understand. >> was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk some night who decided they would go kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make?! >> reporter: but some lawmakers were not satisfied with clinton's testimony. >> all these warnings, all these things -- we didn't have a single department of defense asset apparently available to come to the rescue. the american people and the families of these four brave americans still have not gotten the answers that they deserve. >> reporter: secretary of state hillary clinton was supposed to be here on capitol hill last month but postponed her testimony after suffering a concussion and developing a blood clot near her brain. clinton testified that the fbi has some promising leads into who carried out the attack. >> what they are trying to determine is how best to respond. >> reporter: clinton told lawmakers she is determined to leave the state
she also responded to criticism that the obama administration misled the public about who carried out the attack. >> the fact is, we had four dead americans! >> i understand. >> was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk some night who decided they would go kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make?! >> reporter: but some lawmakers were not satisfied with clinton's testimony. >> all these warnings, all these things -- we...
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. >> as the obama administration agrees to aid france's military bombing in mali, over 20 foreign hostages remain unaccounted for in neighboring algeria in what has been described as one of the biggest international hostage crises in decades. then cycling legend lance armstrong admits to oprah winfrey he cheated his way to a record seven tour de france titles. >> yes or no. did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? >> yes. >> yes or no. was one of those banned substances epo? >> yes. >> did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? >> yes. >> will speak to sportswriter dave zirin, author of, "game over: how politics has turned the sports world upside down." as the fourth anniversary of roe v. wade approaches, we look at how antitrust legislation over the years has criminalize pregnancy, leaving hundreds of women to be forced to undergo unwanted medical procedures and locked up in jail or mental institutions all because there were pregnant? all that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war
. >> as the obama administration agrees to aid france's military bombing in mali, over 20 foreign hostages remain unaccounted for in neighboring algeria in what has been described as one of the biggest international hostage crises in decades. then cycling legend lance armstrong admits to oprah winfrey he cheated his way to a record seven tour de france titles. >> yes or no. did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? >> yes. >> yes or no. was...
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has vowed to have a more transparent administration is this yet another example that that in fact is not the way it played out i would say his his continuation of the surveillance state really expansion of the bush era surveillance policy is one of the most egregious failures of the obama administration especially because he knows better he knows exactly what he's doing and that's what makes it so disturbing and what we really saw with that why in a minute that was subsequently turned down by the congress was the senator wyden and senator udall and others really just wanting to know the basics of this fight what kind of information it collects on whom they want to know something things like how many people are being severely surveilled for instance and whether communications between americans are being reviewed or whether it's just between americans and people in foreign countries so facts like that that we haven't actually gotten any answers to and that we aren't going to get any answers to in the future and in the time in the near future anyway it also was made back in one thousand
has vowed to have a more transparent administration is this yet another example that that in fact is not the way it played out i would say his his continuation of the surveillance state really expansion of the bush era surveillance policy is one of the most egregious failures of the obama administration especially because he knows better he knows exactly what he's doing and that's what makes it so disturbing and what we really saw with that why in a minute that was subsequently turned down by...
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was in power and now the obama administration has you know uniformly embraced it even though the government has acknowledged that the secretive program has exceeded its legal limits violating americans force the fourth amendment constitutional rights the obama administration has aggressively refused to allow any checks and balances and has even refused congressional requests to disclose how many americans have been spied on so things like that i mean a really troubling and i don't think he's going to get as much pushback from congress as as one might hope now switching to foreign policy u.s. relations with china could flare up with washington continuing to zoom in on the asia pacific region and in the south china sea has this asian pivot worked. well know it's actually caused a bit of a harsh reaction from china it's bolstering the hardline nationalists from china which argue for a more aggressive foreign policy in this we you know we should be surprised at this i mean the asia pivot consists essential. a military surge throughout the asia pacific bolstering all our allies especially the on
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but do you think that the administration has understood that well? >> i think obama understands it. i think obama understands that we're in a new age. if you will, the 20th century was a century of struggle for hegemony. and that involved direct political contests, military power. we are now in an age in which struggle for hegemony makes no sense, it's more whether we can establish enough stability in the world that we can deal with global problems. in that context, economic health is the point of departure. it's also the point of departure for global support for the united states and respect for the united states. >> brown: when he brings up climate change though through security, that's what he's talking about? >> exactly. but i do suspect as a practical matter he's going to be more preoccupied with potential strategic challenges. in the middle east, first of all and that involves a whole gambit of issues, in our relations with china, potentialfully our relations with russia and the growing problem of how do we structure an effective alliance with europe. and these the kind of iss
but do you think that the administration has understood that well? >> i think obama understands it. i think obama understands that we're in a new age. if you will, the 20th century was a century of struggle for hegemony. and that involved direct political contests, military power. we are now in an age in which struggle for hegemony makes no sense, it's more whether we can establish enough stability in the world that we can deal with global problems. in that context, economic health is the...
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administration has charged him with violating the espionage act and he is now facing jail time for what he's made public. but the a.c.l.u. was among karaoke supporters that are calling for his prison sentence to be commuted their recent letter to president obama states quote we urge you to take action in this matter mr president please do not let this injustice stands commute john kiriakou sentence and last night at a cafe here in d.c. kiriakou supporters honored him and others that they say simply speak the truth artie's jestina underhill was there. john kiriakou former cia agent and anti torture whistleblower may never see him self in the national portrait gallery but he was celebrated in a different kind of ceremony when state evening the portrait is the newest edition in the americans who tell the truth series by artist robert shirley one of the things that we believe in in this country it's in our constitution and in our legal structure is that we don't torture and that's why i paid it john kiriakou human rights activists legal scholars and other supporters turned out for the celeb
administration has charged him with violating the espionage act and he is now facing jail time for what he's made public. but the a.c.l.u. was among karaoke supporters that are calling for his prison sentence to be commuted their recent letter to president obama states quote we urge you to take action in this matter mr president please do not let this injustice stands commute john kiriakou sentence and last night at a cafe here in d.c. kiriakou supporters honored him and others that they say...
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the goal of the obama administration and the international community is to effect some kind of orderly transition. now it's complicated by the fact that now a second envoy has been engaged after kofi annan's and our intense -- in intransigence. i've had personal conversations prior to being nominated as the secretary with the minister lavrov, which indicated a russian willingness to in fact see the president assad leaves, but they have a different sense of the timing and the manner of that. so, our hope, my hope would be that if confirmed, and when i get in there, to have an ability to take the temperature of these different players can get a sense of sort of where it is, but we have to increase, i think, the ability of the opposition -- strike that, we have to increase their readiness of the president assad to see the die is cast, the handwriting is on the wall to be able to make the judgment here but will save lives and hold the state together in a transition. >> thank you putative i might inclosing it is my view that these admirable diplomatic efforts need to continue. but we frankl
the goal of the obama administration and the international community is to effect some kind of orderly transition. now it's complicated by the fact that now a second envoy has been engaged after kofi annan's and our intense -- in intransigence. i've had personal conversations prior to being nominated as the secretary with the minister lavrov, which indicated a russian willingness to in fact see the president assad leaves, but they have a different sense of the timing and the manner of that. so,...
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administration looks set to continue the use of military force to fulfill it saying. it's almost embarrassing you know as an american i have trouble keeping track of where our troops are these days where were intervening and so for me to try and predict where it's happening not to mention that there are secret operations going on around the world. do we have our troops in over one hundred countries and we must we intervene in the election processes in other places so there's not really any real. activity to do things other than militarily i'm a libertarian the way i'd like to see us affect other country's policies is by setting a good example of how other countries should act i don't want to force democracy or freedom at the point of a gun or airstrikes and i don't want to impose that on other countries. but saudis are up so far this morning kevin and thank you for being with us today from moscow . there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of each of the over sixty two percent of those bes
administration looks set to continue the use of military force to fulfill it saying. it's almost embarrassing you know as an american i have trouble keeping track of where our troops are these days where were intervening and so for me to try and predict where it's happening not to mention that there are secret operations going on around the world. do we have our troops in over one hundred countries and we must we intervene in the election processes in other places so there's not really any...